Senior Business Systems Quality Assurance EngineerDeviceAnywhere

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Overview:
Keynote Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:KEYN) is the global leader in Internet and mobile cloud testing and monitoring. Before the term ?SaaS? was invented and marketing people labeled everything online as ?the cloud?, Keynote was already helping companies improve the connected experience for web and mobile users around the world. Founded in 1995, Keynote Systems is the pioneer in developing on-demand, cloud-based solutions that help our customers assure the online experience in five areas: mobile testing and monitoring, web performance monitoring, web load testing, web privacy monitoring, and real user experience testing. With a global network of more than 7,000 measurement systems and mobile devices, in 260 locations and 187 countries, collecting over 800,000,000 measurements every day, we can provide a level of performance detail on a global scale that is unmatched in the world.

Through our award-winning products, our growing number of 3,000 corporate customers relies upon Keynote to help them become ?the best of the best??and we expect no less from those looking to join our team. Our testing, monitoring and measurement products and services are used by some of the largest and hottest online portals, e-commerce sites, B2B sites, mobile operators, and mobile infrastructure providers including: AT&T, Best Buy, Disney, eBay, E-TRADE, Expedia, FedEx, Google, and Microsoft. With Keynote, these companies know precisely how their mobile apps and web applications perform on actual browsers, networks, and mobile devices from around the world.

We have an immediate opening for a Senior Business Systems Quality Assurance Engineer in our San Mateo, California headquarters.
Keynote?s Operations group is an exciting, challenging, and fast-paced organization with some of the best technical minds in the industry. We are responsible for building and supporting the world?s largest mobile and Internet test and measurement network, which collects over 530,000,000 measurements each day! Reporting to the Director of Internal Operations, the Senior Business Application Quality Assurance Engineer, will be involved in testing and validating new tools and applications, some of which may be customer-facing, to allow Keynote?s Operations organization to become more productive and provide a better overall service to our customers. You will need to be comfortable with juggling multiple high-priority tasks, have a drive to exceed expectations, and be willing to hit the ground running and getting your hands dirty along the way. Telecommuting is not authorized for this position.
Responsibilities:
Design, develop and implement application unit testing framework and automation tools.
Design, develop, document and execute manual and automated test cases.
Work with business analysts and developers to determine the most effective testing and inspection strategy for projects of various size and complexity
Work with developers to isolate complex bugs and verify fixes.
Develop acceptance tests and setup of test data and environments.
Report software problems using a bug tracking system.
Generate bug reports and track and validate defects resolution.
Provide timely status to the project team.
Review and update release notes documentation.
Work collaboratively with the development, business analyst teams and end users during all stages of projects to provide in process testing results.
Coordinate groups of business personnel who test, evaluate and validate new functions and applications, and identify issues in software or services.
Obtains final signoff for code releases to production from the appropriate Business Owner.
Requirements:
Bachelor?s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or similar
At least 3 years? of software testing experience in web-based and multi-tiered environment - J2EE or MS.NET applications.
At least 3 years? experience working with a structured software methodology and software test experience.
3+ years? experience with software quality assurance with strong diagnostic and analytical skills.
3+ years of experience in working with XML and relational databases (Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, etc.).
Thorough knowledge and understanding of the software development life cycle including requirements definition, initial application design, testing, final implementation and operations.
Good working experience with SQL.
Good working experience with Windows and UNIX environments.
Good experience in systems integration and user acceptance testing.
Demonstrated experience writing test plans, test requirements and test cases.
Solid knowledge of automated testing methods and experience writing project test plans and test cases.
Solid expertise in internet protocols with hands-on experience in Windows technologies and tools (Profiler or Fiddler).
In-depth knowledge of all phases of development/test cycles (system, integration, regression).
Good experience in testing multi-tiered applications, specifically front end, UI and database.
Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs, with the ability to establish and maintain a high-level of trust with developers and business analysts.
Ability to explain testing methodology, processes, tools, templates, environments, and concepts to team members.
Skilled in designing and executing technical validation scripts to validate data flow across systems.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal).
Usability experience, a plus.
Self-motivated and passionate about the QA role.

Location:

1670 South Amphlett Boulevard
Suite 350
San Mateo, CA 94402
United States